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A lost Spanish mission on the York River
When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia. Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...
Tags: Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Hampton Roads, College of William and Mary, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Arts and Culture
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Mexican volcano ash suspends flights at Puebla airport
ReutersMEXICO CITY, May 8 (Reuters) - Flights to and from the airport of Puebla, a major city southeast of Mexico City, were halted on Wednesday morning as ash from the nearby Popocatepetl volcano covered the runway, a state government official said. "It'll...Tags: Landforms, Volcanoes, Mexico
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Mexico: Cancun is tops with Memorial Day travelers
Cancun tops the popularity chart with Memorial Day travelers bound for Mexico this year, according to statistics compiled by travel website Kayak.com. “Cancun, San Jose Cabo, Puerto Vallarta and Mexico City are among the top Mexico destinations for...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Holidays, Travel, Memorial Day, Mexico
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Gas tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City, kills 18
ReutersMEXICO CITY, May 7 (Reuters) - A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City early Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring 36 others, the minister of public security in the State of Mexico said. Fifteen vehicles and 20 houses...Tags: Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Mexico
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Gas tanker truck explodes near Mexico City; 19 dead
This post has been corrected. See below for details.MEXICO CITY — Nineteen people were killed and 36 injured Tuesday morning when a gas tanker truck crashed and exploded, damaging dozens of homes in the densely populated Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, according to authorities and news reports. The...Tags: Mexico
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Declined table at Mexico City cafe, woman sparks political drama
MEXICO CITY -- Talk about a tough customer. Indignant that she didn't get a sidewalk table during the busy lunch hour at a swanky Mexico City bistro, the daughter of a chief federal regulator threatened to call her father and have the place shut down....Tags: Media Industry, Abusive Behavior, Twitter, Inc., Mexico, Robert J. Lopez
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Mexican official: 10 of 20 gas explosion victims were minors
MEXICO CITY — The death toll in Tuesday morning’s massive gas truck explosion in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec stands at 20 people, 10 of whom were minors, a local official said. Efren Rojas Avila, the Interior Secretary for the state...
Tags: Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Mexico
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Jonathan Gold recommends: 13 great tacos in Southern California
Tacos - can we ever have enough tacos in our lives? I didn't think so. Because when the taco is right, the birds start to sing and the stars shine more brightly and you have the impression that everything is right with the world, which is a lot of...
Tags: Steaks, Restaurants, Potatoes, Soups, Dining and Drinking
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14 best Mexican restaurants in Southern California, by Jonathan Gold
No places matches the breadth and depth of Mexican restaurants we have in Southern California, except Mexico City itself – and maybe not even there. You can find the cooking of almost every region in the country here, crafted at street-corner taco...
Tags: Restaurants, Cinco de Mayo, Animal, Dining and Drinking, Tacos
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A journalist remembers Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez
Architecture and journalism, like politics, sometimes make strange bedfellows. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, the great Mexican builder who died April 16 at age 94, was responsible for many of the monumental public works that defined the Modernist look and...Tags: Olympic Games, Journalism, Entertainment Events, Architecture, Nobel Prize Awards
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Lt. Gov. Calley to meet with Mexican government, business leaders on 2-day trade mission
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley is planning to meet with government officials and business leaders during a two-day visit to Mexico. Calley was expected to leave Sunday on the mission to strengthen trade relations and attract...Tags: Executive Branch, Business Enterprises, Government, Politics, U.S. Embassy
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Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug war
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday by urging the region's leaders to fight the drug war not with more guns or military aid but with greater investment in infrastructure, education and energy....Tags: El Salvador, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Government, Wars and Interventions, Central America
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